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Education makes a difference, and it can help you achieve your goals. We contract with communities, non-profits, professional associations and many other types of organizations to create training that applies Extension's research-based education to your sponsoring organization's needs.
Is your community ready to launch a business retention initiative in Minnesota? Extension offers training, facilitation and expert advice to community leaders to help you move through the process.
Is the frontline staff in your community maximizing its customer service skills? Our At Your Service workshop builds skills and knowledge for those working with customers to provide a quality experience.
Learn about this partnership with Minnesota Council of Economic Education in which Extension educators mentor community agencies.
This toolkit equips frontline staff with tools and skills to empower clients in understanding their own financial situations and connects them to resources available in their community.
Offer this workshop to your group to provide the basics on transferring non-titled property.
Arrange for us to come and teach on this important topic. Excellent resource for employee groups, community organizations, and more.
Help families make the best use of their health insurance plan and better plan for future health insurance costs.
Help families make the best use of their health insurance plan and better plan for future health insurance costs.
Extension's leadership programs focus on what you need to lead in your community. Our cohort approach to leadership education helps you learn and grow new knowledge and skills to bring people together and solve problems.
How Extension works with sponsors of leadership and civic engagement programs.
Our approach to leadership and civic engagement is grounded in research. But we always keep the real needs of communities in mind.
Learn how Extension evaluates the effectiveness of its leadership and civic engagement programs. Find results on existing programs.
Use these classroom-based activities that integrate physical activity (PA) with academic concepts.
Cooking Matters Minnesota empowers families at risk of hunger with the skills, knowledge and confidence to make healthy, delicious and affordable meals.
Short group activity ideas for educators to get participants of all ages moving in a class, conference, or business meeting environment.
Learn about Great Trays, providing training for school nutrition leaders.
Find all of the educational offerings that SNAP-Ed team members deliver throughout the state.
Systems Approaches for Healthy Communities is a web-based, professional development program. It promotes the integration of policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) interventions with educational strategies.
Bring one of these workshops on increasing participation in school breakfast, creating Smarter Lunchrooms, serving fruits and vegetables, and lowering sodium to your school district.
Pesticide education for private, noncommercial and commercial applicators
Explore cultural identities and examine how they affect interactions with youth. Culturally responsive practice creates a sense of belonging and empowerment in young people.
Dig into the sticky challenges and issues of youth work and examine various ways to respond to real-life problems in their program.
Explores youth work management, leadership and provides internal professional development strategies targeted to youth work practice.
This training suite will help you design programs to support SEL, recognize and respond to unexpected opportunities to learn and practice SEL skills, and apply resources and activities from our SEL toolkit.
Based on the Rings of Engagement, which shows the range of youth engagement and youth-adult partnerships. It teaches four ways to engage youth.
Learn skills to help you work with young people. The content comes from a combination of real youth work experience and research.
WeConnect is both a program model and a curriculum that helps young people see that they are participants in a global society. It prepares them to thrive in culturally-diverse settings. Developed for middle school-aged youth, but can be adapted for other age groups.
The 4-H Youth Teaching Youth program trains teens to take an active role in the teaching and leading of healthy living curriculum to their younger counterparts.
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